Wasn't that the whole POINT of these things in the first place?

Netbooks, to my mind, were meant to be small, cheap, relatively simple machines designed for web-browsing, email and so on... But now manufacturers seem determined make them bigger, more expensive, to call them mini-laptops, ultrathins, whatever phrase you want...

I own a Samsung NC-10 and I love it. I can browse the net on a screen that's far bigger than my mobile phone, I can send emails, I can watch the BBC iplayer, I can even work on technical documentation through Word, and all this in a machine that's the same size and weight as a hardback book. If I wanted a damn laptop, I would have BOUGHT a laptop!

"improved netbook hardware.... larger screens"

Yeah, I want a 19 inch netbook with SLI/Crossfire!